Apparatus, method and recording medium storing commands for providing artificial-intelligence-based risk management solution in credit exposure business of financial institution

ABSTRACT

An aspect of the present disclosure may provide an apparatus for assessing a risk of a company’s stock as collateral. The apparatus according to the present disclosure may include at least one processor configured to: determine, based on a financial statement of the company, data relating to a first attribute group including at least one attribute relating to the company’s financial statement, input the data relating to the first attribute group into the first artificial neural network, determine, based on an output of the first artificial neural network, a first risk value indicating a degree of risk of a financial status of the company, and determine a final risk value of stocks of the company as collateral, based on the first risk value.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority fromKorean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0014792, filed on Feb. 4, 2022,the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a technology for assessing the risk ofa company’s stock as collateral, based on artificial intelligencetechnology.

BACKGROUND

In the existing credit exposure business of financial institutions, amethod for assessing the risk of a company’s stock as collateral hasbeen manually performed according to a so-called heuristic manner.However, this method is problematic in that there may be errors in adecision-making process because people directly make decisions, and thatrisks cannot be consistently assessed and managed due to individualdifferences. Accordingly, the demand for more systematically andaccurately assessing the risk of collateral stock has been increasing inthe industry.

SUMMARY

The present disclosure provides a technique for assessing the risk of acompany’s stock as collateral, based on artificial intelligencetechnology.

An aspect of the present disclosure may provide an apparatus forassessing the risk of a company’s stock as collateral. The apparatusaccording to the present disclosure may include: at least one processor;and at least one memory configured to store instructions, which causethe at least one processor to perform computation when executed by theat least one processor, and a first artificial neural network trained toanalyze financial statement, wherein according to the instructions, theat least one processor is configured to: determine, based on a company’sfinancial statement, data about a first attribute group including atleast one attribute about the company’s financial statement, input thedata about the first attribute group into the first artificial neuralnetwork, determine, based on an output of the first artificial neuralnetwork, a first risk value indicating a degree of risk of the company’sfinancial status, and determine a final risk value of the company’sstock as collateral, based on the first risk value.

In an embodiment, the at least one attribute included in the firstattribute group may be an attribute which has a value derived based onraw data included in a period of a predetermined length, among multiplepieces of raw data included in the company’s financial statement.

In an embodiment, the first artificial neural network may be trained to,based on a learning data set including data relating to multiple firstattribute groups and labeled as risky or not, classify each piece oflearning data included in the learning data set.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades, and whereinthe at least one processor may determine, based on information aboutstock trades of the company, data about a second attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about stock price volatility of thecompany, may input the data about the second attribute group into thesecond artificial neural network, may determine, based on an output ofthe second artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of the stock price volatility of the company, and maydetermine the final risk value based on the first risk value and thesecond risk value.

In an embodiment, the at least one attribute included in the secondattribute group may be an attribute which has a value derived based onraw data included in a period of a predetermined length among multiplepieces of raw data about the stock trades of the company.

In an embodiment, the at least one attribute determined based on the rawdata included in the period of the predetermined length may bedetermined based on a rolling window technique.

In an embodiment, the second artificial neural network may include atleast one weight, wherein the at least one processor may determine theat least one weight based on a learning data set, which includes datarelating to multiple second attribute groups and labeled as risky ornot, and an error back propagation algorithm about the learning dataset, and wherein the at least one weight may be determined such that anerror calculated based on an output value of the second artificialneural network and a label value of the learning data set is minimized.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a thirdartificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, andwherein the at least one processor may determine, based on informationabout a bond issued by the company, data about a third attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about the company’s bond, may input thedata about the third attribute group into the third artificial neuralnetwork, may determine, based on an output of the third artificialneural network, a third risk value indicating a degree of risk of thecompany’s bond, and may determine the final risk value based on thefirst risk value and the third risk value.

In an embodiment, the third artificial neural network may be trained to,when the data relating to the third attribute group determined for eachof bonds of different companies having an identical rating is input,determine the third risk value for each bond, based on the volatility ofclosing prices of the bonds issued by the companies compared with thatof a previous day.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a fourthartificial neural network trained to analyze non-numerical unstructureddata, and wherein the at least one processor may determine, based onnon-numerical unstructured data of the company, data about a fourthattribute group including at least one attribute about the company, mayinput the data about the fourth attribute group into the fourthartificial neural network, may determine, based on an output of thefourth artificial neural network, a fourth risk value indicating adegree of risk of the company based on the non-numerical unstructureddata of the company, and may determine the final risk value based on thefirst risk value and the fourth risk value.

In an embodiment, the non-numerical unstructured data of the company mayinclude notes to the company’s financial statement, news data about thecompany, and social network service (SNS) data about the company.

In an embodiment, the fourth artificial neural network may include a(4-1)th sub artificial neural network for emotion analysis onnon-numerical unstructured data; and a (4-2)th sub-artificial neuralnetwork for category analysis on non-numerical unstructured data.

In an embodiment, the at least one processor may determine the fourthrisk value by performing a weighted sum of an output value of the(4-1)th sub artificial neural network and an output value of the (4-2)thsub artificial neural network.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades, a thirdartificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, and afourth artificial neural network trained to analyze non-numericalunstructured data. The at least one processor may determine, based oninformation about stock trades of the company, data about a secondattribute group including at least one attribute about stock pricevolatility of the company, may input the data about the second attributegroup into the second artificial neural network, may determine, based onan output of the second artificial neural network, a second risk valueindicating a degree of risk of the stock price volatility of thecompany, may determine, based on information about a bond issued by thecompany, data about a third attribute group including at least oneattribute about the company’s bond, may input the data about the thirdattribute group into the third artificial neural network, may determine,based on an output of the third artificial neural network, a third riskvalue indicating a degree of risk of the company’s bond, may determine,based on non-numerical unstructured data of the company, data about afourth attribute group including at least one attribute about thecompany, may input the data about the fourth attribute group into thefourth artificial neural network, may determine, based on an output ofthe fourth artificial neural network, a fourth risk value indicating adegree of risk of the company based on the non-numerical unstructureddata of the company, and may determine the final risk value based on thefirst risk value, the second risk value, the third risk value, and thefourth risk value.

Another aspect of the present disclosure may provide a method forassessing the risk of a company’s stock as collateral. The methodaccording to the present disclosure may be a method performed in acomputer including at least one processor and at least one memoryconfigured to store instructions to be executed by the at least oneprocessor, wherein the at least one memory is configured to storeinstructions, which cause the at least one processor to performcalculation, and a first artificial neural network trained to analyzefinancial statement. The method may be performed by the at least oneprocessor according to the instructions and may include: determining,based on a company’s financial statement, data about a first attributegroup including at least one attribute about the company’s financialstatement; inputting the data about the first attribute group into thefirst artificial neural network; determining, based on an output of thefirst artificial neural network, a first risk value indicating a degreeof risk of the company’s financial status; and determining a final riskvalue of the company’s stock as collateral, based on the first riskvalue.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades, and themethod may be performed by the at least one processor and may furtherinclude: determining, based on information about stock trades of thecompany, data about a second attribute group including at least oneattribute about stock price volatility of the company; inputting thedata about the second attribute group into the second artificial neuralnetwork; determining, based on an output of the second artificial neuralnetwork, a second risk value indicating a degree of risk of the stockprice volatility of the company; and determining the final risk valuebased on the first risk value and the second risk value.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a thirdartificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, and themethod may further include performing, by at least one processor:determining, based on information about a bond issued by the company,data about a third attribute group including at least one attributeabout the company’s bond; inputting the data about the third attributegroup into the third artificial neural network; determining a third riskvalue about the company’s bond, based on an output of the thirdartificial neural network; and determining the final risk value based onthe first risk value and the third risk value.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a fourthartificial neural network trained to analyze non-numerical unstructureddata, and the method may be performed by the at least one processor andmay further include: determining, based on non-numerical unstructureddata of the company, data about a fourth attribute group including atleast one attribute about the company; inputting the data about thefourth attribute group into the fourth artificial neural network;determining, based on an output of the fourth artificial neural network,a fourth risk value indicating a degree of risk of the company based onthe non-numerical unstructured data of the company; and determining thefinal risk value based on the first risk value and the fourth riskvalue.

In an embodiment, the at least one memory may further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades, a thirdartificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, and afourth artificial neural network trained to analyze non-numericalunstructured data, and the method may be performed by the at least oneprocessor and may further include: determining, based on informationabout stock trades of the company, data about a second attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about stock price volatility of thecompany; inputting the data about the second attribute group into thesecond artificial neural network; determining, based on an output of thesecond artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of the stock price volatility of the company;determining, based on information about a bond issued by the company,data about a third attribute group including at least one attributeabout the company’s bond; inputting the data about the third attributegroup into the third artificial neural network; determining a third riskvalue about the company’s bond, based on an output of the thirdartificial neural network; determining, based on non-numericalunstructured data of the company, data about a fourth attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about the company; inputting the dataabout the fourth attribute group into the fourth artificial neuralnetwork; determining, based on an output of the fourth artificial neuralnetwork, a fourth risk value indicating a degree of risk of the companybased on the non-numerical unstructured data of the company; anddetermining the final risk value based on the first risk value, thesecond risk value, the third risk value, and the fourth risk value.

Another aspect of the present disclosure may provide a non-transitorycomputer-readable recording medium storing instructions to be executedin a computer in order to assess the risk of a company’s stock ascollateral. In the recording medium according to the present disclosure,at least one memory may store instructions which cause at least oneprocessor to perform computation, and a first artificial neural networktrained to analyze financial statement, wherein the instructions, whenexecuted by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processorto determine, based on a company’s financial statement, data about afirst attribute group including at least one attribute about thecompany’s financial statement, input the data about the first attributegroup into the first artificial neural network, determine, based on anoutput of the first artificial neural network, a first risk valueindicating a degree of risk of the company’s financial status, anddetermine a final risk value of the company’s stock as collateral, basedon the first risk value.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute apart of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computing device according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which acomputing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosuredetermines a first risk value based on an output of a first artificialneural network.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a rolling window techniqueaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary diagram schematically illustrating learning dataof a first artificial neural network.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which acomputing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosuredetermines a second risk value based on an output of a second artificialneural network.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which acomputing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosuredetermines a third risk value based on an output of a third artificialneural network.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which acomputing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosuredetermines a fourth risk value based on an output of a fourth artificialneural network.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of operations of a computing device according toan embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Various embodiments described herein are exemplified for the purpose ofclearly explaining the technical idea of the present disclosure, and arenot intended to limit the present disclosure to specific embodiments.The technical idea of the present disclosure includes variousmodifications, equivalents, and alternatives of each embodimentdescribed herein, and embodiments selectively combined from all or apart of each embodiment. In addition, the scope of the technical idea ofthe present disclosure is not limited to various embodiments presentedbelow or detailed description thereof.

All terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, havemeanings that are generally understood by those skilled in the art towhich the present disclosure pertains, unless otherwise specified.

Expressions used herein, such as “include,” “may include,” “providedwith,” “may be provided with,” “have,” “may have,” etc., imply thattarget features (e.g., a function, an operation, or an element) exist,and do not exclude the existence of other additional features. That is,such expressions should be understood as open-ended terms connoting thepossibility of inclusion of other embodiments.

A singular expression used herein may include meanings of plurality,unless otherwise mentioned in the context, and this also applies to asingular expression recited in the claims.

The expressions “a first,” “a second,” “first,” or “second” used hereinare used to distinguish one object from another object in referring to aplurality of homogeneous objects, unless the context dictates otherwise,and do not limit the order or the importance between the objects. In anembodiment, multiple types of attribute groups according to the presentdisclosure may be distinguished from each other by being expressed as a“first attribute group,” a “second attribute group,” and the like. In anembodiment, multiple types of artificial neural networks according tothe present disclosure may be distinguished from each other by beingexpressed as a “first artificial neural network,” a “second artificialneural network,” and the like. In an embodiment, multiple types of riskvalues according to the present disclosure may be distinguished fromeach other by being expressed as a “first risk value,” a “second riskvalue,” and the like.

In the present disclosure, the “artificial neural network” may refer toa data set for generating predetermined output data with respect toinput data. In this case, the artificial neural network may include aweight or a bias value for at least one node. For example, an artificialneural network may be a “numerical model,” and in this case, theartificial neural network may include a weight, etc. used in algorithmsor mathematical expressions.

Expressions such as “A, B, and C,” “A, B, or C,” “A, B, and/or C,” “atleast one of A, B, and C,” “at least one of A, B, or C,” and “at leastone of A, B, and/or C,” used herein may imply each listed item or allpossible combinations of listed items. For example, “at least one of Aor B” may refer to all of (1) at least one A, (2) at least one B, and(3) at least one A and at least one B.

The expression “unit” used herein may imply software or hardwarecomponent such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or anapplication specific integrated circuit (ASIC). However, the “unit” isnot limited to hardware and software. The “unit” may be configured to bestored in an addressable storage medium or configured to execute one ormore processors. In an embodiment, the “unit” may include elements suchas software elements, object-oriented software elements, class elements,task elements, a processor, a function, a procedure, a subroutine,segments of a program code, a driver, firmware, a microcode, a circuit,data, a database, a data structure, a table, an array, and a parameter.

The expression “based on” used herein is used to describe one or morefactors that influence a decision, an action of judgment, or anoperation described in a phrase or sentence including the relevantexpression, and this expression does not exclude an additional factorinfluencing the decision, the action of judgment, or the operation.

Herein, when an element (e.g., a first element) is expressed as being“coupled” or “connected” to another element (a second element), theelement may be coupled or connected directly to the other element, ormay be coupled or connected to the other element via another new element(e.g., a third element).

The expression “configured to” used in the present disclosure may imply“designed to,” “having the capacity to,” “adapted to,” “made to,”“capable of,” etc. according to the context. This expression is notlimited to implying “specifically designed to” in hardware. For example,a processor configured to perform a specific operation may imply aspecial-purpose computer structured through programming to perform thespecific operation.

In the present disclosure, artificial intelligence (AI) may refer to atechnology that imitates human learning ability, reasoning ability,perception ability, etc., and implements the same with a computer.Artificial intelligence may include machine learning or elementtechnology using the machine learning. The machine learning may refer toan algorithm that extracts at least one feature of learning data inorder to classify input data. In addition, technologies that mimicfunctions of the human brain, such as cognition and determination, byusing a machine learning algorithm, may also be understood as thecategory of artificial intelligence. For example, technical fields suchas linguistic understanding, visual understanding, inference/prediction,knowledge expression, and operation control may be included.

In the present disclosure, an artificial neural network may be designedto implement a human brain structure in a computer, and may includemultiple network nodes that simulate neurons of a human neural networkand have weights. The multiple network nodes may have a connectionrelationship therebetween by simulating synaptic activities of neuronsthat transmit and receive signals through synapses. In an artificialneural network, the network nodes may exchange data therebetweenaccording to a convolutional connection relationship while beingpositioned in layers having different depths. The artificial neuralnetwork may be, for example, a convolutional neural network model, orthe like. In the present disclosure, the artificial neural network maybe a model trained according to a predetermined machine learning method,and may imply a model in which a weight for at least one network node,included in a non-learned model, is determined by machine learning. Themachine learning may refer to improving computer software’s ability toprocess data, through learning using data and data processingexperience. The artificial neural network is built by modelingcorrelations between data, and the correlations may be expressed bymultiple parameters. The artificial neural network may extract andanalyze features from given data to derive correlations between data,and optimizing the parameters of the artificial neural network byrepeating this process may be referred to as machine learning. Forexample, an artificial neural network may learn mapping (correlation)between an input and an output with respect to data given as aninput/output pair. Alternatively, even when only input data is given,the artificial neural network may learn the relationship between givendata by deriving regularity between the given data. In the presentdisclosure, the term “artificial neural network” may be usedinterchangeably with the term “artificial neural network model.”

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present disclosure will bedescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings. In theaccompanying drawings and the description of the drawings, identical orsubstantially equivalent elements may be assigned with identicalreference numerals. Furthermore, in the following description of variousembodiments, redundant descriptions of the identical or relevantelements will be omitted. However, this does not imply that suchelements are not included in the embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computing device 100 according to anembodiment of the present disclosure. The computing device 100 of thepresent disclosure may determine a risk value of a company’s stock ascollateral, based on at least one artificial neural network. Thecomputing device 100 may ensemble output values of multiple artificialneural networks to determine a risk value of a company’s stock ascollateral. That is, the computing device 100 may determine a final riskvalue of the company’s stock as collateral, based on the output valuesof the multiple artificial neural networks.

The computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may generate, based on a company’s financial statement, inputdata (i.e., data about a first attribute group) to be input into a firstartificial neural network. The computing device 100 may input the dataabout the first attribute group to the first artificial neural network,and may determine, based on an output of the first artificial neuralnetwork, a first risk value indicating a degree of risk of the company’sfinancial status.

The computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may generate, based on information about stock trades of thecompany, input data (i.e., data about a second attribute group) to beinput into a second artificial neural network. The computing device 100may input the data about the second attribute group into the secondartificial neural network, and may determine, based on an output of thesecond artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of stock price volatility of the company.

The computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may generate, based on information on a bond issued by thecompany, input data (i.e., data about a third attribute group) to beinput into a third artificial neural network. The computing device 100may input the data about the third attribute group into the thirdartificial neural network, and may determine, based on an output of thethird artificial neural network, a third risk value indicating a degreeof risk of the company’s bond.

The computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may generate, based on unstructured data about the company,input data (i.e., data about a fourth attribute group) to be input intoa fourth artificial neural network. The computing device 100 may inputthe data about the fourth attribute group into the fourth artificialneural network, and may determine, based on an output of the fourthartificial neural network, a fourth risk value indicating a degree ofrisk based on the unstructured data of the company.

The computing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may determine a final risk value based on at least one of theabove-described first to fourth risk values. For example, the computingdevice 100 may determine the final risk value by calculating a weightedaverage of the first to fourth risk values.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the computingdevice 100 may include at least one processor 110 and/or at least onememory 120 as elements. In some embodiments, at least one of theseelements of the computing device 100 may be omitted, or other elementsmay be added to the computing device 100. In some embodiments,additionally or alternatively, some elements may be integrated andimplemented, or may be implemented as a single entity or multipleentities. In the present disclosure, the at least one processor 110 maybe referred to as “processor 110.” The expression “processor 110” mayimply a set of one or more processors, unless the context clearlydictates otherwise. In the present disclosure, the at least one memory120 may be referred to as “memory 120.” The expression “memory 120” maymean a set of one or more memories, unless the context clearly dictatesotherwise.

At least some of the internal and external elements of the computingdevice 100 may be connected to each other through a bus, general purposeinput/output (GPIO), a serial peripheral interface (SPI), or a mobileindustry processor interface (MIPI), and may exchange data and/orsignals with each other.

The processor 110 may drive software (e.g., an instruction, a program,etc.) to control at least one element of the computing device 100connected to the processor 110. In addition, the processor 110 mayperform operations such as various calculations, processing, datageneration, and processing related to the present disclosure. Also, theprocessor 110 may load data, etc. from or in the memory 120, or maystore data, etc. in the memory 120.

The memory 120 may store various types of data. The data stored in thememory 120 may be data obtained, processed, or used by at least oneelement of the computing device 100, and may include software (e.g., aninstruction, a program, etc.). The memory 120 may include volatileand/or non-volatile memory. In the present disclosure, the instructionor the program may be software stored in the memory 120, and may includean operating system for controlling resources of the computing device100, an application, and/or middleware for providing various functionsto the application so that the application can use the resources of thecomputing device 100. In an embodiment, the memory 120 may storeinstructions which, when executed by the processor 110, cause theprocessor 110 to perform calculation. In an embodiment, the memory 120may include at least one artificial neural network.

In an embodiment, the computing device 100 may further include acommunication circuit 130. The communication circuit 130 may performwireless or wired communication between the computing device 100 and aserver or between the computing device 100 and other devices. Forexample, the communication circuit 130 may perform wirelesscommunication according to a scheme such as enhanced Mobile Broadband(eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), MassiveMachine Type Communications (MMTC), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), LTEAdvance (LTE-A), New Radio (NR), Universal Mobile TelecommunicationsSystem (UMTS), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), CodeDivision Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), WirelessBroadband (WiBro), Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), Bluetooth, Near-FieldCommunication (NFC), Global Positioning System (GPS), or GlobalNavigation Satellite System (GNSS). For example, the communicationcircuit 130 may perform wired communication according to a scheme suchas a Universal Serial Bus (USB), a High-Definition Multimedia Interface(HDMI), Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232), or Plain Old TelephoneService (POTS). In an embodiment, the communication circuit 130 maycommunicate with other devices.

The computing device 100 according to various embodiments of the presentdisclosure may be various types of devices. For example, a computingdevice may be a portable communication device, a portable multimediadevice, a wearable device, a home appliance, or a device resulting froma combination of one or more of the foregoing devices. The computingdevice of the present disclosure is not limited to the above-describeddevices.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which thecomputing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure determines a first risk value based on an output of a firstartificial neural network. Hereinafter, the process of determining thefirst risk value by the computing device 100 will be described belowwith reference to FIG. 2 . The memory 120 according to the presentdisclosure may store a first artificial neural network 220 trained toanalyze financial statement.

The processor 110 may determine, based on a company’s financialstatement, data about a first attribute group including at least oneattribute about the company’s financial statement. In the presentdisclosure, the data about the first attribute group may be referred toas “first attribute group data” for convenience. In the presentdisclosure, the financial statement refers to documents showing thefinancial status or management performance of the company. For example,financial statement may include information about a company’s assets,liabilities, equity, income, expenses, etc. In the present disclosure,the term “attribute” may be used as a unit for referring to each item ofinput data that is input into an artificial neural network. In thepresent disclosure, the term “attribute” may be used interchangeablywith the term “feature.” In the present disclosure, an “attribute group”may include at least one “attribute.” In the present disclosure, theattribute group may be a set of items included in input data that isinput into an artificial neural network.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first attribute groupmay include each account title included in the financial statement as anattribute. For example, the first attribute group may include, as anattribute, at least one among cash, accounts receivable, commodities,land, buildings, patents, development costs, deposits, short-termborrowings, accounts payable, unearned revenue, debentures, capital,earned surplus reserve, stock options, etc. The data about the firstattribute group may include raw data described in financial statement.The data about the first attribute group may be a value derivedaccording to a predetermined algorithm from a value of each attributedescribed in the financial statement. At this time, the algorithm forderiving the value may be defined as a specific mathematical expression.For example, one attribute included in the first attribute group may bea “capital impairment rate.” The capital impairment rate may becalculated based on Mathematical Expression 1 below.

$\text{Capital}\mspace{6mu}\text{inpairment}\mspace{6mu}\text{rate} = \frac{\left( {\text{issued}\mspace{6mu}\text{capital} - \text{total}\mspace{6mu}\text{equity}} \right)}{\text{issued}\mspace{6mu}\text{capital}}$

The processor 110 may obtain a value of an individual attribute includedon the left side of Mathematical Expression 1 from the company’sfinancial statement. The processor 110 may include “capital impairmentrate” as one attribute of the first attribute group, so that whendetermining a risk value based on the output of the artificial neuralnetwork, the processor 110 determines the risk value reflecting the riskof the company being incorporated into administrative issues or the riskof the company being delisted.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, at least one attributeincluded in the first attribute group may be an attribute which has avalue derived based on raw data included in a period of a predeterminedlength, among multiple pieces of raw data included in the company’sfinancial statement. The raw data included in the period of thepredetermined length may be data obtained from financial statementdisclosed at multiple different time points. The raw data included inthe period of the predetermined length may include multiple pieces ofdata. At this time, the period of the predetermined length may be, forexample, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 4 years, etc. Hereinafter, forconvenience of description, an attribute determined based on the rawdata included in the period of the predetermined length, among theattributes included in the first attribute group, may be referred to asan “attribute P.” Multiple attributes P may exist, and may berespectively referred to as an attribute P-1, an attribute P-2, etc. fordistinction. The processor 110 may calculate a value of the attribute Pbased on multiple pieces of raw data included in the company’s financialstatement. The attribute P according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may be an average, weighted average, variance, or standarddeviation of the raw data included in the period of the predeterminedlength. For example, the attribute P may be “an average of sales in theprevious 4 quarters.” For example, the attribute P may be “variance ofnet income over the previous 10 years.” For example, the attribute P maybe an “operating loss in the last 4 business years.” The above examplesof the attribute P are only a description for explanation and does notlimit the present disclosure, and as described above, the processor 110may define an attribute to be included in the first attribute groupbased on raw data included in a period of a predetermined length,thereby setting an attribute representing a tendency of past data asinput data of the first artificial neural network. As a result, theprocessor 110 may accurately determine the first risk value.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the processor 110may determine, based on feature engineering, at least one attributeincluded in the first attribute group. The feature engineering refers toa technique for determining an optimal attribute (or feature) as aninput into the processor 110 when the processor 110 determines apredetermined risk value as an output. The processor 110 may receive theattribute determined based on the feature engineering, and may calculatean output value based on an artificial neural network. The featureengineering may include a rolling window technique.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a rolling window techniqueaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In the presentdisclosure, the rolling window technique is a technique for verifyingthe accuracy or stability of a specific attribute over the entire timeseries data. An attribute to be verified by the rolling window techniquemay be an attribute defined by a predetermined numerical model oralgorithm. That is, the processor 110 may divide the entire time seriesdata into multiple pieces of sub time series data and may determine,based on calculation for each sub data, at least one attribute includedin the first attribute group. In this case, the time-series data refersto data, in which multiple pieces of data are arranged in chronologicalorder and which has meaning in order. The entire time series data forperforming a rolling window may be raw data included in past financialstatement.

In order to verify the specific attribute by using the rolling windowtechnique, the processor 110 may divide the entire time series data intomultiple pieces of sub time series data and then perform unitcalculation based on each piece of sub time series data. The sub timeseries data may be distinguished by a temporal range referred to as a“window.” In FIG. 3 , the total length of time series data is referredto as T (T is a natural number greater than or equal to 1), and the sizeof a window is referred to as m (m≤T). The size of a window becomes thesize of one piece of sub-time-series data when the entire time-seriesdata is divided into multiple pieces of sub time-series data through thewindow. Also, the size of the window determines the number of pieces ofdata used in each unit calculation by the processor 110. That is, thefact that the size of a window is m implies that the number of pieces ofdata referred to in each unit calculation for verifying a specificattribute is m. The processor 110 may predict a predetermined number ofpieces of data by performing unit calculation based on each window. Forexample, when the size of a window is m, the number of pieces of data tobe predicted may be the last n (n < m). In this case, the processor 110may predict the last n pieces of following data by referring to m-npieces of preceding data within the window. Specifically, when n is 1,the processor 110 may predict one following last piece of data byreferring to preceding m-1 pieces of data among data of each window.Hereinafter, for convenience of description, a case in which n is 1 willbe described. For example, when the length of the entire time seriesdata is T and the size of a window is m (m≤T), the processor 110 mayobtain a total of T-m+1 pieces of sub time series data. The processor110 may determine a predicted value for one last piece of data includedin each piece of sub time series data by performing unit calculation oneach of the T-m+1 pieces of sub-time-series data. The processor 110 maycalculate an error between a true value and the predicted value of theone last piece of data included in each sub-data. The processor 110 maycalculate an error of a corresponding attribute by integrating errorscalculated as many times as T-m+1. For example, the processor 110 maycalculate an error of the corresponding attribute by calculating a rootmean square error (RMSE) of T-m+1 errors.

When there are multiple numerical models, as described above withreference to FIG. 3 , the processor 110 according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure may calculate an error regarding each numericalmodel and compare the errors regarding the multiple numerical models,thereby determining that a numerical model having the smallest errorvalue, among the multiple numerical models, has the best predictiveperformance. The processor 110 may determine, based on the rollingwindow technique, some numerical models, which satisfy a predeterminederror reference, among a plurality of numerical models as attributesincluded in the first attribute group. The processor 110 may determine,based on the rolling window technique, at least one attribute includedin the first attribute group. The processor 110 may determine anattribute (i.e., the attribute P) to be included in the first attributegroup, based on raw data included in a period of a predetermined lengthamong multiple pieces of raw data included in the financial statement,wherein the attribute may be determined based on the rolling windowtechnique.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary diagram schematically illustrating learning dataof a first artificial neural network 220. A first learning data set 410may include data 210 about a first attribute group that is calculatedfor each of multiple companies. The first learning data set 410 mayinclude a label value for the first attribute group data. A label forthe first attribute group data may be a value indicating whether acorresponding company’s financial status is at risk. The label may be,for example, a binary value.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a first attribute groupdata for each of multiple companies, the processor 110 may train thefirst artificial neural network 220 based on the first learning data set410 which includes the first attribute group data labeled as whether thecorresponding company’s financial status is risky. In the presentdisclosure, each artificial neural network model or numerical model maybe trained through a different external device independent of thecomputing device 100 and then stored in the memory 120. In thisdisclosure, for convenience of description, it is assumed that anartificial neural network model or a numerical model is trained by theprocessor 110 and stored in the memory 120. The processor 110 may trainthe first artificial neural network 220 by performing a classificationtask based on the above-described first learning data set 410. Theprocessor 110 may use the first learning data set 410 to train the firstartificial neural network 220, based on a proportional hazards model ora survival tree decision-making model. The processor 110 may control orcalculate the first artificial neural network 220 so that the firstartificial neural network 220 outputs a value (hereinafter referred toas a risk value) on whether there is a risk with respect to individuallearning data included in the first learning data set 410. Specifically,the processor 110 may input data about the first attribute group of acompany “A” into the first artificial neural network 220 and obtain arisk value by an output according to the corresponding input. Also, withrespect to each of other companies (e.g., “B” company, “C” company,etc.), the processor 110 may input data about the first attribute groupinto the first artificial neural network 220, and may obtain a riskvalue according to each input. The processor 110 may update at least onenode weight included in the first artificial neural network 220 so as tominimize an error between each of multiple risk values obtained from thefirst artificial neural network 220 and a corresponding label value. Theupdating of the weight may be based on, for example, a backpropagationtechnique.

When training of the first artificial neural network 220 according to anembodiment of the present disclosure is completed, the processor 110 mayinput new input data having a similar form to the individual learningdata included in the first learning data set into the first artificialneural network 220, and may predict a risk value (i.e., a first riskvalue) for the new input data, based on an output according to theinput. As a result, the processor 110 may input the data 210 about thefirst attribute group to the first artificial neural network 220, andmay determine, based on an output of the first artificial neural network220, a first risk value 230 indicating the degree of risk for thecompany’s financial status.

The processor 110 according to an embodiment of the present disclosuremay determine a final risk value of the company’s stock as collateral,based on the first risk value. The processor 110 may use the first riskvalue as the only consideration factor to determine the final risk valueof the company’s stock. The processor 110 may also compare the firstrisk value with a predetermined threshold value to determine the finalrisk value. For example, when the first risk value is 0.8 and thepredetermined critical risk value is 0.7, the processor 110 maydetermine the final risk value to be 1 because the first risk value(0.8) exceeds the predetermined threshold risk value (0.7). Theprocessor 110 may determine the final risk value from the first riskvalue by using multiple predetermined threshold risk values.

In an embodiment, the processor 110 may determine the final risk valueof the company’s stock, not only based on the first risk value, but alsoadditionally based on an output of another artificial neural network. Anembodiment in which the processor 110 determines the final risk valuebased additionally on an output of another artificial neural networkwill be described in detail below.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which thecomputing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure determines a second risk value 530 based on an output of asecond artificial neural network 520. In an embodiment, the memory 120may store the second artificial neural network 520 trained to analyzestock trades. For example, the second artificial neural network may be aregression model based on a sigmoid function. The processor 110 may usethe second artificial neural network 520 to determine a second riskvalue indicating the degree of risk of stock price volatility of acompany.

Hereinafter, a process of determining the second risk value 530 by thecomputing device 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 5 . Theprocessor 110 may determine, based on information about stock trades ofa company, data 510 about a second attribute group including at leastone attribute about stock price volatility of the company. In thisdisclosure, the data about the second attribute group may be referred toas “second attribute group data” for convenience. For example,information on stock trades of companies listed on the Korean stockmarket may be obtained from the Korean Exchange. Information on stocktrades of a company may include, for example, an opening price, aclosing price, a trading volume, a closing price of the previous day, adifference value between closing prices of the current day and theprevious day, a ratio of the closing price of the current day to theclosing value of the previous day, a maximum price of the previous 5days, a minimum price of the previous 5 days, and a log value regardinga trading volume, etc. The processor 110 may determine the data 510about the second attribute group from the information on stock trades ofthe company. The data on the second attribute group may include raw dataincluded in the information about stock trades. The data about thesecond attribute group may be a value derived from the information aboutstock trades according to a predetermined algorithm.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, at least oneattribute included in the second attribute group may be an attributewhich has a value derived based on raw data included in a period of apredetermined length, among multiple pieces of raw data about stocktrades of the company. The raw data included in the period of thepredetermined length may include multiple pieces of data. The raw dataincluded in the period of the predetermined length may be data obtainedfrom stock trading information obtained at each of different times. Theperiod of the predetermined length may be, for example, 1 millisecond, 1minute, 1 hour, 1 month, etc. Hereinafter, for convenience ofdescription, an attribute determined based on the raw data included inthe period of the predetermined length, among attributes included in thesecond attribute group, may be referred to as an “attribute Q.” Multipleattributes Q may exist, and may be respectively referred to as anattribute Q-1, an attribute Q-2, etc. for distinction.

The processor 110 may calculate a value for the attribute Q, based onthe raw data included in the period of the predetermined length, amongmultiple pieces of raw data about stock trades of the company. Forexample, the attribute Q may be an average of daily chart closing pricesincluded in the period of the predetermined length. In this case, theperiod of the predetermined length may be variously set to 1 second, 1hour, 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, etc.

In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, the processor 110may determine the at least one attribute included in the secondattribute group, based on a rolling window technique. Since the basicprinciple of the rolling window technique is the same as that describedabove in relation to the first attribute group, the differences will bemainly described below. The processor 110 may define, based on theinformation about stock trades of the company, at least one candidateattribute representing the downward stability of stock price of thecompany. The at least one candidate attribute may be defined by apredetermined numerical model. For example, a candidate attributerepresenting the downward stability of stock price of the company may bea mathematical expression that receives a stock price for n days andreturns the probability of stock price falling on an (n+1)th day as avalue.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processor 110 maydetermine the second artificial neural network 520, based on a secondlearning data set including data relating to multiple second attributegroups and labeled as risky or not. The second learning data set may beprepared similarly to the first learning data set 410 described withreference to FIG. 4 . In the second learning data set, each label valuemay be a value indicating whether there is a risk of company stock ascollateral according to company stock information. The processor 110 maydetermine the second artificial neural network 520 by performinglearning of a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model, learning of a LongShort Term Memory (LSTM) model, or a logistic regression task, based onthe second training data set. The second artificial neural networkaccording to the present disclosure may be a data set having a CNN modelstructure. The second artificial neural network according to the presentdisclosure may be a data set having an LSTM model structure. The secondartificial neural network according to the present disclosure may be adata set having a logistic regression model structure. Hereinafter, withreference to Mathematical Expressions 2 and 3, a case in which thesecond artificial neural network of the present disclosure has alogistic regression model structure will be described as an example.

The logistic regression according to the present disclosure is ananalysis task for deriving a function that most accurately predictsoutput data for each input data in a data pair including “input data(i.e., the second attribute group data) - output data (i.e., labelvalues).” In an example, the second artificial neural network may be anumerical model based on a sigmoid function, and may be expressed asMathematical Expression 2 below.

$\text{P}\left( {\text{Y} = 1\left| {\text{X} = \overset{\rightarrow}{x}} \right)} \right) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{- {\overset{\rightarrow}{\beta}}^{T}\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}}$

In Mathematical Expression 2, x is a symbol representing a value inputto the second artificial neural network in a vector form. The vector xmay be a vector having the same size as the number of attributes inputinto the second artificial neural network. The vector β represents aweight vector including weights multiplied by each attribute value ofthe input vector (x). The weight vector (β) may have the same dimensionas the input vector (x). The processor 110 may determine the secondartificial neural network by determining the weights included in β,based on the second learning data set.

In another example, the second artificial neural network may be anumerical model based on a sigmoid function, and may be expressed asMathematical Expression 3 below.

$\text{P}\left( {\text{Y} = 1\left| {\text{X} = x} \right)} \right) = \frac{1}{1 + e^{- {({ax + b})}}}$

In Mathematical Expression 3, x is a symbol that simply represents avalue input into the second artificial neural network. Parameters a andb may be weights that the processor 110 should determine. The parametera may be a weight that implies a curve gradient of the second artificialneural network as a sigmoid function. As the parameter a increases, thegradient of an S-curve of the second artificial neural network mayincrease (that is, the S-curve approaches a stair shape), and as theparameter a decreases, the gradient of the S-curve of the secondartificial neural network may decrease (that is, the S-curve approachesa flat shape). The parameter b may be a weight that implies translationof the second artificial neural network as a sigmoid function. Theprocessor 110 may determine the second artificial neural network bydetermining the parameters a and b of the left side in MathematicalExpression 3, based on the second training data set.

The processor 110 may predict output data from input data, based on thesecond artificial neural network 520, and may update and/or determine atleast one weight included in the second artificial neural network 520according to the error. The processor 110 may determine at least oneweight value of the second artificial neural network 520 based on alearning data set, which includes data relating to multiple secondattribute groups and labeled as risky or not, and an error backpropagation algorithm. The at least one weight of the second artificialneural network 520 may be determined such that an error calculated basedon an output value of the second artificial neural network 520 and alabel value of the learning data set is minimized. Specifically, in alearning data set including data relating to multiple second attributegroups and labeled as risky or not, the processor 110 may input randomsecond attribute group data into the second artificial neural network520 to obtain an output value. The processor 110 may identify a labelvalue of the corresponding second attribute group data from the learningdata set and may compare the label value with the obtained output valueof the second artificial neural network 520 to calculate an error. Theprocessor 110 may update and/or determine the at least one weight of thesecond artificial neural network 520 such that the calculated error isminimized. At this time, the processor 110 may square and sum an errorfor each piece of learning data to calculate the total sum of theerrors. The updating of the weight of the second artificial neuralnetwork 520 may be iteratively performed for each piece of apredetermined number of learning data according to gradient descent. Theprocess of updating the weight of the second artificial neural network520 may be referred to as a “learning process” of the second artificialneural network 520.

The processor 110 may train the second artificial neural network 520such that the difference between a predicted value, which is output bythe second artificial neural network 520 in response to input data(i.e., the data on the second attribute group), and a label value of theinput data is reduced. Here, training the second artificial neuralnetwork 520 such that the difference between the predicted value and thelabel value is reduced implies that a predicted value (e.g., 0.9, 0.99,etc.) for specific learning data, predicted by the second artificialneural network 520 as an output, becomes equal to a label value(e.g., 1) for the learning data by performing iteration that minimizesthe sum of errors As a result, for example, when the label value for thesecond attribute group data includes 0 and 1, the processor 110 maydetermine the second artificial neural network 520 to output “1” or apredicted value similar to “1” with respect to new second attributegroup data having a pattern similar to that of existing second attributegroup data labeled “1.” In addition, the processor 110 may determine thesecond artificial neural network 520 to output “0” or a predicted valuesimilar to “0” with respect to new second attribute group data having apattern similar to that of existing second attribute group data labeled“0.”

The processor 110 may input the data 510 about the second attributegroup into the second artificial neural network 520, and may determine,based on the output of the second artificial neural network 520, thesecond risk value 530 indicating the degree of risk of stock pricevolatility of the company.

As described above, the processor 110 may determine the first risk value230 based on the output of the first artificial neural network 220. Theprocessor 110 may determine the second risk value 530 based on theoutput of the second artificial neural network 520. The processor 110may determine a final risk value of the company’s stock as collateralbased on the first risk value 230 and the second risk value 530. Theprocessor 110 may determine the final risk value by assigning a weightto the output of each artificial neural network. For example, theprocessor 110 may assign a weight of 0.6 to the first risk value and aweight of 0.4 to the second risk value, thereby determining that thefinal risk value is “0.6 * the first risk value + 0.4 * the second riskvalue.” The specific numerical values of the weights illustrated hereare only examples for description and do not limit the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which thecomputing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure determines a third risk value 630 based on an output of athird artificial neural network 620. In an embodiment, the memory 120may store the third artificial neural network 620 trained to analyze acorporate bond. The processor 110 may determine, based on theinformation on a company’s bond, the third risk value 630 indicating adegree of risk of the company’s bond through the third artificial neuralnetwork 620.

Specifically, the processor 110 may determine, based on informationabout a bond issued by a company, data about a third attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about the company’s bond. In thepresent disclosure, the data related to the third attribute group may bereferred to as “third attribute group data” for convenience. Theinformation on the bond issued by the company may include, for example,whether the company has issued a bond, the rating of an issued bond, achange in the rating of a listed bond, a change in a closing price of alisted bond, etc.

The processor 110 may train the third artificial neural network 620,based on a third learning data set including data relating to multiplethird attribute groups and labeled as being a junk bond or not. Thethird learning data set may be prepared in a form similar to that of thefirst learning data set 410 described with reference to FIG. 4 . Thejunk bond refers to a company’s bond with a high risk of principal lossif invested in the company’s bond due to business deterioration or poorperformance of the company. In the third learning data set, the thirdattribute group data of each company may be labeled as being a junk bondor not. For example, in the third learning data set, an issued bondhaving a rating of BB (double B) or lower may be labeled as a junk bond.In addition, in a case where the rating of an issued bond exceeds BB(double B) in the third learning data set but the rating of the listedbond decreases by 2 steps or more per predetermined unit period, thebond of the company may be labeled as a junk bond. The processor 110 maytrain the third artificial neural network 620 by using the thirdtraining data set to classify input data as being a junk bond or not. Inan embodiment of the present disclosure, when data on a third attributegroup determined for each of bonds of different companies having thesame rating is input into the third artificial neural network 620, theprocessor 110 may train the third artificial neural network 620 suchthat the third artificial neural network 620 determines a third riskvalue of each bond based on the closing price volatility of the bondsissued by the companies compared with the previous day. For example, inthe data on the third attribute group, even when a “bond grade”attribute of bonds of companies A and B is the same good level at whichthe bonds are not classified as junk bonds, the bond of the company Amay be labeled as a junk bond when the value of a “closing pricevolatility compared with the previous day” attribute of the bond of thecompany A exceeds a predetermined level and thus the volatility isdetermined to be high. Accordingly, the processor 110 may cause thethird artificial neural network 620 to evaluate stability of a bond ascollateral by considering the closing price volatility of the bond inaddition to the rating of the bond. With respect to new input data(i.e., third attribute group data) about a company’s bond, the trainedthird artificial neural network 620 may output, as a risk value, aprobability that the company’s bond is a junk bond.

The processor 110 may input data 610 about the third attribute groupinto the third artificial neural network 620, and may determine, basedon the output of the third artificial neural network 620, the third riskvalue 630 indicating the degree of risk of the company’s bond. Theprocessor 110 may determine a final risk value of the company’s stock ascollateral based on the first risk value and the third risk value. Theprocess in which the processor 110 determines the final risk value basedon the first risk value and the third risk value may be performed byassigning a weight to each risk value, similarly to the process ofdetermining the final risk value based on the first risk value and thesecond risk value.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process in which thecomputing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure determines a fourth risk value 730 based on an output of afourth artificial neural network 720. In an embodiment, the memory 120may store the fourth artificial neural network 720 trained to analyzeunstructured data. The processor 110 may determine, through the fourthartificial neural network 720, the fourth risk value 730 indicating adegree of risk of a company based on various types of unstructured dataabout the company. In the present disclosure, the company’s unstructureddata may include, for example, notes to the company’s financialstatement, news data about the company, and social network service (SNS)data about the company. The notes to a financial statement refers todata that is difficult to express quantitatively in financial statement,and may be text data that includes, for example, phrases such as“transactions between specially related parties,” “whether there is aguarantee by a specially related party,” “transactions betweenrelated-subsidiary companies,” “other provisional guaranteeliabilities,” and “long-term inventory” in the financial statement. Thenews data and/or the social network service (SNS) data about companiesmay include articles written by media outlets, articles written onportal sites, etc.

Specifically, the processor 110 may determine, based on unstructureddata of the company, data 710 about a fourth attribute group includingat least one attribute about a company. In the present disclosure, thedata about the fourth attribute group may be referred to as “fourthattribute group data” for convenience. The fourth attribute group datamay include at least one word embedding vector. In order to determinethe data 710 about the fourth attribute group based on the company’sunstructured data, the processor 110 may preprocess the company’sunstructured data to generate multiple tokens, and may determine a wordembedding vector corresponding to each token, based on a word embeddingmethod. The word embedding method will be described later in detail.

The processor 110 according to an embodiment of the present disclosuremay generate the multiple tokens from the unstructured data of thecompany by performing a morpheme analysis operation or a tokenizingoperation with respect to the unstructured data of the company.

The processor 110 may classify a word or a phrase included in thecompany’s unstructured data into morpheme units through the morphemeanalysis operation. The processor 110 may classify a word or a phraseincluded in the unstructured data into a substantial morpheme and aformal morpheme. The processor 110 may classify a word or a phraseincluded in the unstructured data into a lexical morpheme and agrammatical morpheme. The processor 110 may tag each word or phrase withthe morpheme analysis result. Specifically, when the processor 110performs a morpheme analysis operation on the text “I went home,” thetext may be analyzed as “I/pronoun + went/verb + home/adverb.” Inanother example, when the processor 110 performs a morphologicalanalysis operation on the text “a mountain is green,” the text may beanalyzed as “a/article + mountain/noun + green/adjective.”

The processor 110 may perform a tokenizing operation of extractingmultiple tokens from the unstructured data of the company. Thetokenizing operation may be performed after the morpheme analysisoperation described above. The processor 110 may extract, as a token, aword or phrase classified as a “substantive morpheme” or a “lexicalmorpheme” from the result of morpheme analysis on the unstructured data.The processor 110 may extract, as a token, a prototype of a word orphrase classified as a “substantial morpheme” or a “lexical morpheme”from the morpheme analysis result. For example, when two morphemes“home” and “go” in specific text are analyzed as substantial morphemes,the processor 110 may extract “home” and “go” as tokens, respectively.The description of the morpheme analysis operation or tokenizingoperation for the aforementioned unstructured data of the company isonly an example for explanation, and the present disclosure includes,without limitation, various methods for extracting multiple tokens bypreprocessing unstructured data of a company.

The processor 110 may extract multiple tokens from the unstructured dataof the company and then determine a word embedding vector correspondingto each token by using a word embedding method. In the presentdisclosure, “word embedding” may be a term referring to a method forexpressing a word or phrase as a vector. In the present disclosure, the“word embedding vector” may be a term referring to a vectorcorresponding to a word or phrase according to the word embeddingmethod. The word embedding vector may be a word vector according tosparse representation. The word vector according to the sparserepresentation may be, for example, a one-hot vector generated throughone-hot encoding. In the one-hot vector, the index value of a word to berepresented is 1, and the other index values may be represented as 0.The word embedding vector may be a word vector according to denserepresentation. The word vector according to the dense representationmay be generated from a one-hot vector, for example, according to analgorithm such

as Continuous Bag Of Word (CBOW) or Skip-Gram. In the sparserepresentation, most values of elements of a vector or matrix arerepresented as 0. On the other hand, in the dense representation method,elements of a vector or matrix may have real values. In the presentspecification, it is assumed that the word embedding vector is a wordvector according to dense representation. The word embedding methodaccording to the present disclosure may include word2vec, FastText,Glove, etc. As described above, in the present disclosure, the fourthattribute group data about the company may include a word embeddingvector corresponding to each of the multiple tokens which the processor110 generates by preprocessing the unstructured data of the company.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processor 110 may inputthe data 710 about the fourth attribute group into the fourth artificialneural network 720, and may determine, based on an output of the fourthartificial neural network 720, the fourth risk value 730 indicating thedegree of risk of the company based on the unstructured data of thecompany. The fourth artificial neural network 720 for processingunstructured data may be an artificial neural network for processing asequence in which an order exists among input data. For example, thefourth artificial neural network 720 may be an artificial neural networkmodel having a recurrent neural network (RNN) structure. The fourthartificial neural network 720 may be trained to sequentially receiveinput of multiple word embedding vectors having a predetermined orderand output a degree of risk of the input.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the fourth artificial neuralnetwork 720 may include a 4-1 sub artificial neural network for emotionanalysis on unstructured data and a 4-2 sub artificial neural networkfor category analysis on the unstructured data.

The processor 110 may input the fourth attribute group data into the 4-1sub-artificial neural network, and may perform positive/negativedetermination on the input, based on an output value according to theinput. For example, the 4-1 sub artificial neural network may output aprobability value close to 1 when unstructured data of a specificcompany mainly includes positive expressions about the company.Conversely, the 4-1 sub-artificial neural network may output aprobability value close to 0 when the unstructured data of a specificcompany mainly includes negative expressions about the company.

The processor 110 may input the fourth attribute group data to the 4-2sub artificial neural network, and may perform category classificationon the input, based on an output value according to the input. Theprocessor 110 may use the 4-2 sub artificial neural network to classifythe fourth attribute group data as one of multiple predeterminedcategories. Each of the multiple predetermined categories may correspondto a predetermined keyword set. Also, each category may correspond to apredetermined weight. For example, a first category may correspond to akeyword set including keywords such as “stop,” “audit scope,”“embezzlement,” and “review opinion.” Also, the first category maycorrespond to “2” as a weight. In another example, a second category maycorrespond to a keyword set including keywords such as “insolvency,”“corporate review committee,” “filing for bankruptcy,” and “corporaterehabilitation.” Also, the second category may correspond to “3” as aweight. The processor 110 may input the fourth attribute group data onthe unstructured data of the company to the 4-2 sub-artificial neuralnetwork, and may derive a most similar category and similar probabilitythrough a category classification task. The most similar category may bedetermined based on a vector distance between a word embedding vector ofa keyword included in a keyword set corresponding to each category andword embedding vectors included in the fourth attribute group data.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processor 110 maydetermine the fourth risk value 730 by performing the weighted sum of anoutput value of the 4-1 sub artificial neural network and an outputvalue of the 4-2 sub artificial neural network. For example, theprocessor 110 may determine the fourth risk value 730 by multiplying acategory similarity probability according to the output value of the 4-2sub artificial neural network by a weight corresponding to acorresponding category and then adding an output value of the 4-1 subartificial neural network thereto. As described above, the fourthartificial neural network 720 of the present disclosure may include the4-1 sub artificial neural network and the 4-2 sub artificial neuralnetwork. Therefore, the processor 110 may perform emotion analysis andcategory classification on unstructured data in parallel, and maydetermine the fourth risk value 730 in consideration of both the emotionanalysis and the category classification.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 determines multiple risk values based on multipleartificial neural network models or numerical models, and may determinea final risk value based on at least one of the multiple risk values.

Specifically, as described above with reference to FIG. 2 , theprocessor 110 may determine the data 210 about the first attribute groupincluding at least one attribute about the company’s financialstatement, may input the data 210 about the first attribute group intothe first artificial neural network 220 trained to analyze the financialstatement, and may determine, based on an output of the first artificialneural network 220, the first risk value 230 indicating the degree ofrisk of the company’s financial status. As described above withreference to FIG. 5 , the processor 110 may determine the data 510related to the second attribute group including at least one attributeabout stock price volatility of the company, may input the data 510about the second attribute group into the second artificial neuralnetwork 520 trained to analyze stock trades, and may determine, based onthe output of the second artificial neural network 520, the second riskvalue 530 indicating the degree of risk of stock price volatility of thecompany. As described above with reference to FIG. 6 , the processor 110may determine the data 610 about the third attribute group including atleast one attribute about the company’s bond, may input the data 610about the third attribute group into the third artificial neural network620 trained to analyze the company’s issued bond, and may determine,based on the output of the third artificial neural network 620, thethird risk value 630 indicating the degree of risk of the company’sbond. As described above with reference to FIG. 7 , the processor 110may determine the data 710 about the fourth attribute group including atleast one attribute about the company, may input the data 710 about thefourth attribute group into the fourth artificial neural network 720trained to analyze unstructured data, and may determine, based on theoutput of the fourth artificial neural network 720, the fourth riskvalue 730 indicating the degree of risk based on the unstructured dataof the company. The structure, operation method, and learning method ofeach artificial neural network have been described in detail above, soredundant descriptions thereof will be omitted.

The processor 110 may determine a final risk value based on at least oneof the first risk value 230, the second risk value 530, the third riskvalue 630, and the fourth risk value 730. Hereinafter, a descriptionwill be made of a process of determining the final risk value based onall of the first risk value 230, the second risk value 530, the thirdrisk value 630, and the fourth risk value 730. The processor 110 maydetermine the final risk value by averaging the risk values determinedbased on the artificial neural networks (so-called soft voting method).The processor 110 may determine the final risk value by calculating aweighted average of the risk values determined based on the artificialneural networks (so-called weighted voting method). For example, thefinal risk value may be calculated as in Mathematical Expression 4below.

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Here, a weight corresponding to each model, such as a first weight, asecond weight, or the like, may be predetermined and stored in thememory 120. N in Mathematical Expression 4 is a factor representing thenumber of artificial neural networks, and may be a natural number.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, with respect tomultiple companies, the processor 110 may determine a final risk valueof each company’s stock according to the same method as MathematicalExpression 4 described above. The processor 110 may compare final riskvalues of the entire company with a predetermined threshold to determinelendable and non-lendable stocks. The processor 110 may determine, basedon multiple predetermined interval thresholds, a loan grade according toa final risk value of a company.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processor 110may use at least one risk value (i.e., at least one risk value among thefirst to fourth risk values), which functions as a basis for determiningthe final risk value, to determine whether there is at least one among afirst risk of not recovering the principal and interest of a loan due tothe occurrence of an event such as meeting criteria for administrativeissue designation and delisting or meeting regulations on inclusion inand exclusion from administrative issues in the KOSDAQ market, a secondrisk of not recovering a part of the principal and interest of the loandue to the fall of a company’s stock price, and a third risk in terms ofopportunity cost that may occur when not lending to the company.

In the present disclosure, the first risk may imply a risk caused when aloan was made based on determination that the loan was possible for aspecific company, but it is impossible to recover the principal andinterest of the loan due to the fact that the company meets the criteriafor administrative issue designation and delisting, meets theregulations on inclusion in and exclusion from administrative issues inthe KOSDAQ market, goes bankrupt, becomes subject to management, or goesinto a rehabilitation procedure. The processor 110 may determine whetherthe first risk exists, based on the first risk value obtained from thefirst artificial neural network trained to analyze the company’sfinancial statement or the fourth risk value obtained from the fourthartificial neural network trained to analyze the company’s unstructureddata. For example, when the first risk value or the fourth risk value isgreater than or equal to each threshold, the processor 110 may determinethat the first risk exists by determining that a negative event such asmeeting criteria for administrative issue designation and delisting,meeting regulations on inclusion in and exclusion from administrativeissues in the KOSDAQ market, bankruptcy, or management has occurred inthe company.

In the present disclosure, the second risk may imply a risk caused whena loan was made based on determination that the loan was possible for aspecific company, but it is impossible to recover a part of theprincipal and interest of the loan due to a sharp drop in the value ofthe company’s stock as collateral, thereby resulting in a loss greaterthan the collateral ratio. The processor 110 may determine whether thesecond risk exists, based on the second risk value obtained from thesecond artificial neural network trained to analyze the company’s stocktrades or the third risk value obtained from the third artificial neuralnetwork trained to analyze a bond issued by the company. For example,when the second risk value or the third risk value is greater than orequal to each threshold, the processor 110 may determine that the secondrisk exists by determining that there is a possibility that thecompany’s stock may fall rapidly.

In the present disclosure, the third risk may imply a risk in terms of apotential loss related to an expected profit that was not obtained as aresult of the fact that a loan was not made based on determination thatthe loan was not possible for a specific company, but it was laterconfirmed that the loan was possible. The processor 110 may determinewhether the third risk exists based on the first to fourth risk values.For example, when a specific company is not currently able to get a loanand when the first to fourth risk values calculated for the company areall equal to or lower than respective thresholds, the processor 110 maydetermine that the third risk exists as a potential loss with respect tothe company. That is, unlike the first risk or the second risk, when thethird risk exists, the processor 110 may determine that a loan ispossible for the company and may inform an operator of the determinationby using a predetermined method.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 may accurately measure the risk of a company’sstock as collateral, based on a financial statement that is directlydisclosed by the company and enables checking of the businessperformance of the company. In other words, the computing device 100according to the present disclosure may perform a fast and consistentvaluation of a company’s stock based on the financial statement.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 may calculate a final risk value in considerationof not only a company’s financial statement, but also stock tradinginformation representing a change in the value of the company’s stockand information about a bond issued by the company, and thus mayquantitatively calculate the risk of the company’s stock as collateralfrom various types of information.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 calculates the final risk value in consideration ofnot only the company’s financial statement but also the company’sunstructured data, and thus may calculate a predetermined numericalvalue from the unstructured data (e.g., text data) that is notquantitatively expressed, and may calculate, based on the numericalvalue, the risk for corporate stocks as collateral more accurately.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 determines, based on a rolling window technique, atleast one attribute to be input into the first artificial neural networkor the second artificial neural network, and thus may determine optimalinput data for increasing the performance of the artificial neuralnetwork. As a result, the computing device 100 according to the presentdisclosure may derive a risk value of the company’s stock with highaccuracy, based on the first artificial neural network or the secondartificial neural network.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, thecomputing device 100 may acquire a company’s financial statement, thevalue of the company’s stock, the value of the company’s bond, andunstructured data about the company in real time, and even for companiespreviously determined as lendable issues, may use at least one riskvalue, which is the basis for determining the final risk value, tocontinuously monitor the case in which: i) it is impossible to recoverthe principal and interest of a loan due to the occurrence of an eventsuch as criteria for administrative issue designation and delisting orregulations on inclusion in and exclusion from administrative issues inthe KOSDAQ market; or ii) it is impossible to recover a part of theprincipal and interest of the loan due to a sharp drop in the value ofthe company’s stock as collateral. In addition, even for a company forwhich a loan was determined to be impossible to be obtained, if a riskvalue calculated for the company is stably low, the company may bedetermined to be a company capable of obtaining a loan, therebyminimizing a potential loss that may occur when the loan is not carriedout.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of operations of a computing device according toan embodiment of the present disclosure. In operation S810, thecomputing device 100 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure may determine, based on a company’s financial statement, dataabout a first attribute group including at least one attribute about thecompany’s financial statement. The first attribute group may includeeach account title included in the financial statement as an attribute.For example, the first attribute group may include, as an attribute, atleast one among cash, accounts receivable, commodities, land, buildings,patents, development costs, deposits, short-term borrowings, accountspayable, unearned revenue, debentures, capital, earned surplus reserve,stock options, etc. The data about the first attribute group may includeraw data described in the financial statement. The data about the firstattribute group may be a value derived according to a predeterminedalgorithm from a value of each attribute described in the financialstatement.

In operation S820, the computing device 100 according to an embodimentof the present disclosure may input the data about the first attributegroup into a first artificial neural network. The first artificialneural network may be trained based on a first learning data setincluding each piece of the first attribute group data labeled aswhether the company’s financial status is risky or not. The firstartificial neural network may be trained to classify each piece oflearning data included in the first learning data set well.

In operation S830, the computing device 100 according to an embodimentof the present disclosure may determine, based on the output of thefirst artificial neural network, a first risk value indicating a degreeof risk of the company’s financial status. The processor 110 may input,into the first artificial neural network, new input data having asimilar form to individual learning data included in the first learningdata set, and may predict a risk value (i.e., a first risk value) forthe new input data, based on an output according to the input.

In operation S840, the computing device 100 according to an embodimentof the present disclosure may determine a final risk value of thecompany’s stock as collateral, based on the first risk value. Theprocessor 110 may determine the final risk value by additionallyreflecting a risk value derived based on another artificial neuralnetwork in the first risk value. The processor 110 may compare thedetermined final risk value with a predetermined threshold to finallydetermine whether a loan is possible or impossible for a specificcompany.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it ispossible to perform a fast and consistent valuation of a company’sstock, based on a financial statement.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it ispossible to calculate a predetermined numerical value from unstructureddata (e.g., text data) that is not quantitatively expressed, andcalculate, based on the numerical value, the risk of the company’s stockas an accurate collateral.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it ispossible to quantitatively calculate the risk of a company’s stock ascollateral from various types of information such as a financialstatement, stock information, bond information, and unstructured data.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it ispossible to determine optimal input data for increasing the performanceof an artificial neural network model or a numerical model.

According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, it ispossible to acquire a company’s financial statement, company stockvolatility, the value of the company’s bond, and unstructured data aboutthe company in real time, and even for companies previously determinedas lendable issues, use at least one risk value, which is the basis fordetermining the final risk value, to continuously monitor the case inwhich: i) recovery of the principal and interest of a loan is impossibledue to the occurrence of an event such as meeting criteria foradministrative issue designation and delisting or meeting regulations oninclusion in and exclusion from administrative issues in the KOSDAQmarket; or ii) recovery of the principal and interest of the loan ispartially impossible due to a sharp drop in the value of the company’sstock as collateral. In addition, even for a company that was previouslydetermined to be unable to get a loan, it is possible to determine thecompany as a company capable of getting the loan when a risk valuecalculated for the company is stably low, thereby minimizing a potentialloss that may occur when the loan is not carried out.

In each flowchart illustrated in the present disclosure, the steps ofthe method or algorithm according to the present disclosure aredescribed in a sequential order. However, in addition to being performedsequentially, the steps may be performed in an order in which the stepsmay be arbitrarily combined by the present disclosure. The descriptionof the flowchart in the present disclosure does not exclude changes ormodifications to the method or algorithm, and does not imply that apredetermined step is necessary or desirable. In an embodiment, at leastsome steps may be performed in parallel, repeatedly, or heuristically.In another embodiment, at least some steps may be omitted or anotherstep may be added.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented assoftware in a machine-readable storage medium. The software may besoftware for implementing the above-mentioned various embodiments of thepresent disclosure. The software may be inferred from variousembodiments of the present disclosure by programmers in a technicalfield to which the present disclosure belongs. For example, the softwaremay be a program including machine-readable instructions (e.g., code orcode segments). A machine may be a device capable of operating accordingto an instruction called from the storage medium, and may be, forexample, a computer. In an embodiment, the machine may be the computingdevice 100 according to embodiments of the present disclosure. In anembodiment, a processor of the machine may execute a called instructionto cause elements of the machine to perform a function corresponding tothe instruction. In an embodiment, the processor may be the processor310 according to embodiments of the present disclosure. The storagemedium may imply any type of recording medium which storesmachine-readable data. The storage medium may include, for example, ROM,RAM, CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storagedevice, and the like. In an embodiment, the storage medium may be thememory 320. In an embodiment, the storage medium may be implemented tobe distributed to computer systems which are connected to each otherthrough a network. The software may be distributed, stored, and executedin the computer systems. The storage medium may be a non-transitorystorage medium. The non-transitory storage medium implies a tangiblemedium irrespective of whether data is stored semi-permanently ortemporarily, and does not include a transitorily propagated signal.

Although the technical idea of the present disclosure has been describedthrough various embodiments, the technical idea of the presentdisclosure includes various substitutions, modifications, and changeswhich may be made within the scope of the present disclosure that can beunderstood by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosurebelongs. Furthermore, it should be understood that such substitutions,modifications, and changes may fall within the scope of the accompanyingclaims.

What is claimed is:
 1. An apparatus, comprising: at least one processor;and at least one memory configured to store instructions, which causethe at least one processor to perform computation when executed by theat least one processor, a first artificial neural network trained toanalyze a financial statement, and a fourth artificial neural networktrained to analyze non-numerical unstructured data comprising notes to afinancial statement, wherein according to the instructions, the at leastone processor is configured to: verify at least one attribute relatingto a financial statement of a company via a rolling window technique,define, based on the verification, a first attribute group comprising atleast a portion of the at least one attribute relating to the financialstatement of the company, determine, based on the financial statement ofthe company, data relating to the first attribute group, input the datarelating to the first attribute group into the first artificial neuralnetwork, determine, based on an output of the first artificial neuralnetwork, a first risk value indicating a degree of risk of financialstatus of the company, determine, based on non-numerical unstructureddata of the company, data relating to a fourth attribute groupcomprising at least one attribute relating to the company, input thedata relating to the fourth attribute group into the fourth artificialneural network, determine, based on an output of the fourth artificialneural network, a fourth risk value indicating a degree of risk of thecompany based on the non-numerical unstructured data of the company, anddetermine a final risk value of stocks of the company as collateral,based on the first risk value and the fourth risk value.
 2. Theapparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute included in thefirst attribute group is an attribute which has a value derived based onraw data included in a period of a predetermined length, among aplurality of pieces of raw data included in the financial statement ofthe company.
 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first artificialneural network is trained to, based on a learning data set comprisingdata relating to a plurality of first attribute groups and labeled asrisky or not, classify each piece of learning data included in thelearning data set.
 4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least onememory is configured to further store a second artificial neural networktrained to analyze stock trades, and wherein the at least one processoris configured to: determine, based on information relating to stocktrades of the company, data relating to a second attribute groupcomprising at least one attribute relating to stock price volatility ofthe company, input the data relating to the second attribute group intothe second artificial neural network, determine, based on an output ofthe second artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of the stock price volatility of the company, anddetermine the final risk value based on the first risk value, the secondrisk value, and the fourth risk value.
 5. The apparatus of claim 4,wherein the at least one attribute included in the second attributegroup is an attribute which has a value derived based on raw dataincluded in a period of a predetermined length among a plurality ofpieces of raw data relating to the stock trades of the company.
 6. Theapparatus of claim 2, wherein the at least one attribute determinedbased on the raw data included in the period of the predetermined lengthis determined based on a rolling window technique.
 7. The apparatus ofclaim 5, wherein the at least one attribute determined based on the rawdata included in the period of the predetermined length is determinedbased on a rolling window technique.
 8. The apparatus of claim 4,wherein the second artificial neural network comprises at least oneweight, wherein the at least one processor is configured to determinethe at least one weight based on a learning data set, which comprisesdata relating to a plurality of second attribute groups and labeled asrisky or not, and an error back propagation algorithm related to thelearning data set, and wherein the at least one weight is determinedsuch that an error calculated based on an output value of the secondartificial neural network and a label value of the learning data set isminimized.
 9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memoryis configured to further store a third artificial neural network trainedto analyze a corporate bond, and wherein the at least one processor isconfigured to: determine, based on information relating to a bond issuedby the company, data relating to a third attribute group comprising atleast one attribute relating to the bond of the company, input the datarelating to the third attribute group into the third artificial neuralnetwork, determine, based on an output of the third artificial neuralnetwork, a third risk value indicating a degree of risk of the bond ofthe company, and determine the final risk value based on the first riskvalue, the third risk value, and the fourth risk value.
 10. Theapparatus of claim 9, wherein the third artificial neural network istrained to, in response to an input of the data relating to the thirdattribute group determined for each of bonds of different companieshaving an identical rating, determine the third risk value for eachbond, based on volatility of closing prices of the bonds issued by thecompanies compared with that of a previous day.
 11. The apparatus ofclaim 1, wherein the fourth artificial neural network comprises: a(4-1)th sub artificial neural network for emotion analysis on thenon-numerical unstructured data; and a (4-2)th sub-artificial neuralnetwork for category analysis on the non-numerical unstructured data.12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor isconfigured to determine the fourth risk value by performing a weightedsum of an output value of the (4-1)th sub artificial neural network andan output value of the (4-2)th sub artificial neural network.
 13. Theapparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory is configured tofurther store a second artificial neural network trained to analyzestock trades and a third artificial neural network trained to analyze acorporate bond, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to:determine, based on information relating to stock trades of the company,data relating to a second attribute group comprising at least oneattribute relating to stock price volatility of the company, input thedata relating to the second attribute group into the second artificialneural network, determine, based on an output of the second artificialneural network, a second risk value indicating a degree of risk of thestock price volatility of the company, determine, based on informationrelating to a bond issued by the company, data relating to a thirdattribute group comprising at least one attribute relating to the bondof the company, input the data relating to the third attribute groupinto the third artificial neural network, determine, based on an outputof the third artificial neural network, a third risk value indicating adegree of risk of the bond of the company, and determine the final riskvalue based on the first risk value, the second risk value, the thirdrisk value, and the fourth risk value.
 14. A method performed in acomputer comprising at least one processor and at least one memoryconfigured to store instructions to be executed by the at least oneprocessor, wherein the at least one memory is configured to store theinstructions, which cause the at least one processor to performcomputation, a first artificial neural network trained to analyze afinancial statement, and a fourth artificial neural network trained toanalyze non-numerical unstructured data comprising notes to a financialstatement, the method being performed by the at least one processoraccording to the instructions and comprising: verifying at least oneattribute relating to a financial statement of a company via a rollingwindow technique, defining, based on the verification, a first attributegroup comprising at least a portion of the at least one attributerelating to the financial statement of the company, determining, basedon the financial statement of the company, data relating to the firstattribute group; inputting the data relating to the first attributegroup into the first artificial neural network; determining, based on anoutput of the first artificial neural network, a first risk valueindicating a degree of risk of financial status of the company;determining, based on non-numerical unstructured data of the company,data relating to a fourth attribute group comprising at least oneattribute relating to the company, inputting the data relating to thefourth attribute group into the fourth artificial neural network,determine, based on an output of the fourth artificial neural network, afourth risk value indicating a degree of risk of the company based onthe non-numerical unstructured data of the company, and determining afinal risk value of stocks of the company as collateral, based on thefirst risk value and the fourth risk value.
 15. The method of claim 14,wherein the at least one memory is configured to further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades, the methodbeing performed by the at least one processor and further comprising:determining, based on information relating to stock trades of thecompany, data relating to a second attribute group comprising at leastone attribute relating to stock price volatility of the company;inputting the data relating to the second attribute group into thesecond artificial neural network; determining, based on an output of thesecond artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of the stock price volatility of the company; anddetermining the final risk value based on the first risk value, thesecond risk value, and the fourth risk value.
 16. The method of claim14, wherein the at least one memory is configured to further store athird artificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, themethod being performed by the at least one processor and furthercomprising: determining, based on information relating to a bond issuedby the company, data relating to a third attribute group comprising atleast one attribute relating to the bond of the company; inputting thedata relating to the third attribute group into the third artificialneural network; determining, based on an output of the third artificialneural network, a third risk value relating to the bond of the company;and determining the final risk value based on the first risk value, thethird risk value, and the fourth risk value.
 17. The method of claim 14,wherein the at least one memory is configured to further store a secondartificial neural network trained to analyze stock trades and a thirdartificial neural network trained to analyze a corporate bond, themethod being performed by the at least one processor and furthercomprising: determining, based on information relating to stock tradesof the company, data relating to a second attribute group comprising atleast one attribute relating to stock price volatility of the company;inputting the data relating to the second attribute group into thesecond artificial neural network; determining, based on an output of thesecond artificial neural network, a second risk value indicating adegree of risk of the stock price volatility of the company;determining, based on information relating to a bond issued by thecompany, data relating to a third attribute group comprising at leastone attribute relating to the bond of the company; inputting the datarelating to the third attribute group into the third artificial neuralnetwork; determining, based on an output of the third artificial neuralnetwork, a third risk value relating to the bond of the company; anddetermining the final risk value based on the first risk value, thesecond risk value, the third risk value, and the fourth risk value. 18.A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructionsto be executed in a computer, wherein at least one memory is configuredto store the instructions, which cause at least one processor to performcomputation, a first artificial neural network trained to analyze afinancial statement, and a fourth artificial neural network trained toanalyze non-numerical unstructured data comprising notes to a financialstatement, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least oneprocessor, cause the at least one processor to: verify at least oneattribute relating to a financial statement of a company via a rollingwindow technique, define, based on the verification, a first attributegroup comprising at least a portion of the at least one attributerelating to the financial statement of the company, determine, based onthe financial statement of the company, data relating to the firstattribute group, input the data relating to the first attribute groupinto the first artificial neural network, determine, based on an outputof the first artificial neural network, a first risk value indicating adegree of risk of financial status of the company, determine, based onnon-numerical unstructured data of the company, data relating to afourth attribute group comprising at least one attribute relating to thecompany, input the data relating to the fourth attribute group into thefourth artificial neural network, determine, based on an output of thefourth artificial neural network, a fourth risk value indicating adegree of risk of the company based on the non-numerical unstructureddata of the company, and determine a final risk value of stocks of thecompany as collateral, based on the first risk value and the fourth riskvalue.